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CCCCXXXVIII.— THE SOUTERS o' SELKIRK. 387
erects it of new into a royal burgh, with all the privileges an-
nexed to such corporations. On the 20th of June 1536, the
same prince, " for the gude, trew, and thankful service done
and to be done to ws be owre lovittis, the baillies, burgesses,
and communite of our burgh of Selkirk, and for certaine othir
reasonable causis and considerationis moving ws, be the ten-
nor hereof, gkantis and gevis license to thame and their
successors to ryfe out, breke, and teil yeirlie ane thousand
acres of thair common landis of our said burgh, in what part
thairof they please, for the policy, strengthing, and bigging
of the samyn ; for the wele of ws and of lieges repairand
thairto, and defence againis owre auld innemyis of Ingland
and otherwayis ; And Will and Grantis that thai sail nocht
be callit, accusit, nor incur ony danger, or skaith thairthrow,
in thair personis, landis, nor gudis, in ony wise in time cuming,
Nochtwithstanding ony owre actis or statutis maid or to be
maid in the contrair in ony panys contenit tharein, anent the
quhilkis we dispens with thame be thir owre letters : With
power to occupy the saidis landis with thare awne gudis, or to
set thame to tenentis as thai sail think maist expedient for the
wele of our said burgh ; With free ishe and entrie, and with
all and sindry utheris commoditeis, freedomes, asiamentis, and
richtis pertinentis whatsumever pertenying, or that rychtuisly
may pertene thairto, perpetually in tyme cumming, frelie,
quietlie, wele, and in peace, but ony revocation or agane call-
ing whatsumever. Gevin under owre signet, and subscrivit
with owre hand, at Striveling, the twenty day of Junii, the
yeir of God ane thousand five hundreth and thretty six yeris
and of owre regne the twenti thre yeir." Here follows ano-
ther grant by that prince, dated about nine weeks after the
one that has just been narrated : " We, understanding that
owre burgh of Selkirk, and inhabitants thairof, continualie
sen the Field of Flodoune has been oppressit, heriit and owre
run be theves and traitors, whairthrow the hant of merchan-
dice has cessit amangis thame of langtyme bygane, and thai
heriit thairthrow, and we defraudit of owre custumis and